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- From: watt-alan@net.yale.edu (Alan Watt)
- Subject: Re: Registered Keys - why the need?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.150922.9515@news.yale.edu>
- Originator: swatt@mickey.CS.Yale.Edu
- Sender: swatt%mickey@net.yale.edu (Alan Watt)
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- Organization: Yale University, Computing & Information Systems
- References: <715.517.uupcb@grapevine.lrk.ar.us> <1992Nov01.233637.138278@watson.ibm.com> <1992Nov3.090942.1626@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> <1992Nov4.202104.3851@chpc.org> <1992Nov7.133526.1682@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:09:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov7.133526.1682@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>, denning@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes:
- <...>
- |> My understanding is that the phone companies keep an audit of all taps.
- |>
- |> Section 2519 of Title 18 contains fairly elaborate reporting
- |> requirements for law enforcement. The reports go into the annual
- |> "Wiretap Report" which lists the judge, prosecutor, offense specified,
- |> cost, duration, number of intercepts, persons intercepted,
- |> incriminating intercepts, arrests, trials, motions to suppress, and
- |> convictions for each tap.
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- Look in the report and see if it lists CT State Police monitoring of
- all calls in/out of their facilites for several years up to 1991, when
- it was finally disclosed. All calls from detainees to their attorneys
- were recorded, as were all calls from attorneys at State Police facilites
- to anywhere. The State Police claimed they "never reviewed" the recordings.
- Just recently, the CT Attorney General announced that no charges would be
- filed in the case.
-
- Now admittedly, these recordings were made on the PABX equipment at
- State Police premises, not the facilities of SNET or another public
- service provider. But given the changes in telecommunications, what
- unit of governemnt *doesn't* operate its own phone network these days?
- CT has a private T3 network linking all state offices; am I safe in
- assumeing that any phone call I make or receive in any state office
- facility is free of monitoring devices? Recent experience here suggests
- (1) you cannot trust the authorities; (2) if caught they will not be
- punished (thus reinforcing item 1).
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- Alan S. Watt
- Yale University Computing and Information Systems
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